Post War Years
CBF set up and financed the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad to help administer aid and support to Jewish survivors of Nazi-occupied areas, which was especially instrumental in the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. In 1947, Movement children were granted British citizenship, and CBF helped file claims to recover refugees’ families’ property. In addition, CBF supported hundreds of orphaned children in their relocation to Britain after the war and set up the Primrose Club, a community centre in Belsize Park to assist their transition to post-war life. Most became British citizens.
Read more about this topic: World Jewish Relief
Famous quotes containing the words post, war and/or years:
“I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post which any human power can give.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“We make war that we may live in peace.”
—Aristotle (384–322 B.C.)
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—Sarah Louise Delany (b. 1889)